The Goose Steps Out is a StudioCanal Vintage Classic and part of the Ealing Studios Digitally Restored collection. Comedy legend Will Hay stars as William Potts, a hapless, clumsy schoolteacher, who just happens to be an identical body double for a notorious German Nazi general. When the army […]

Monday sees the release of the Oscar®-winning (Bafta® and Golden Globe® as well) Manchester by the Sea. Casey Affleck* (Gone Baby Gone) stars as Lee, a man whose spare existence is suddenly ruptured when the death of his brother Joe (Kyle Chandler, Carol, The Wolf of Wall Street) […]

Mandy is a Digitally Restored Ealing Studios film, part of the StudioCanal Vintage Classic collection. Nominated for 6 BAFTAs in 1952, Ealing classic Mandy is the heart-rending adaptation of Hilda Lewis’s novel The Day is Ours, from acclaimed director Alexander Mackendrick (Whisky Galore!, The Man in the […]

The print files for The Proud Valley left Rogue Four Towers recently. A Studio Canal Vintage Classic title from 1940, it features the wonderful singing voice of Paul Robeson and tells the story of a small Welsh mining community dealing with the closure of the local pit, a story that […]

A digitally restored Vintage Classic from Studio Canal, The Man Between is a later collaboration between James Mason and Carol Reed, often considered a companion piece to The Third Man thanks to its atmospheric portrayal of a city struggling to survive in a grim post-war reality of poverty and […]

Crossed Anchors Brewing began life when multiple award-winning brewer and publican duo Paddy O’Riordan and Ollie Bainbridge joined forces and launched a brand new brewing company in Exmouth. With the beer initially produced through “cuckoo” brewing (using spare capacity in an existing brewery), the pair now have a […]

This week saw the release of Swallows and Amazons on Blu-ray and DVD. An enchanting new take on the beloved novel by Arthur Ransome, Swallows and Amazons tells the story of the Walker children, whose summer holiday in the Lake District sees them sailing out on their […]

The Blue Lamp is an Ealing Studios Vintage Classic title from StudioCanal. An immensely popular British crime film, Basil Dearden’s The Blue Lamp was scripted by ex-policeman T.E.B Clark, the writer who arguably did most to define Ealing Studio’s post-war identity. The film marked the first appearance of the […]

Q: A film about Tickling? A: A film about Tickling. Tickled. After stumbling upon a bizarre “competitive endurance tickling” video online, wherein young men are paid to be tied up and Tickled, reporter David Farrier reaches out to request a story from the company. But the […]

Room is based on the best-selling novel by Emma Donoghue and featuring an Academy Award, BAFTA and Golden Globe winning performance from Brie Larson. One of the most acclaimed films of 2016 and Directed by Academy Award nominee Lenny Abrahamson, Room is an intensely powerful […]

Reed Watts Architects is a design-led studio, based in London, producing creative and thoughtful architecture. With a diverse range of work covering a variety of sectors, they design houses and fit-outs to larger commercial and residential projects as well as public, cultural buildings. Initially I worked with co-owner Jim Reed on […]

Carol was released earlier in 2016 (and seems reflect the chill I was feeling as I was working on it!). Based on the theatrical artwork, the sleeve was a Blu-ray and DVD release with embossed O-rings. I was supplied with an incredible amount of stills, some of […]

From Academy Award winner Brian Helgeland, LEGEND is the blistering crime thriller which tells the true story of the rise and fall of London’s most notorious gangsters, Reggie and Ronnie Kray, both played by Tom Hardy in a powerhouse double performance. It such a nice feeling receiving an […]

The artwork for the Legend Steelbook followed on from the Legend Blu-ray and DVD artwork, but uses the artwork from some early teaser posters. To set it apart from the other formats this artwork used a slightly different colour palette and graphic content. The Steelbook […]

In Israel and South Africa, Ilan Pappé brings together lawyers, journalists, policy makers and historians of both countries to assess the implications of the apartheid analogy for international law and political activism. With contributors including the distinguished anti-apartheid activist Ronnie Kasrils, the book offers a bold and incisive perspective […]

Breathing Space by Mark Everard and Understanding Energy and Energy Policy by Timothy F. Braun and Lisa M. Glidden are both Environment titles from Zed Books. Both titles I think work extremely well as simple, clear sleeves that get the message across. Breathing Space is a favourite of mine, […]

Three Development titles from Zed Books. The Crises Of Microcredit (edited by Isabelle Guérin, Marc Labie and Jean-Michel Servet), Beyond Colonialism, Development and Globalization (edited by Dominique Caouette and Dip Kapoor), and Masculinities Under Neoliberalism (edited by Andrea Cornwall, Frank G. Karioris and Nancy Lindisfarne). The Crises Of […]

Fluent Architectural Design Services are experts in residential planning and design, and also specialise in producing high quality feasibility studies and planning applications. Fluent were looking to freshen up their website, make it mobile friendly and change the structure of the content so it could easily be […]

Dead In Time is first book from the The Sara Jones Cycle, a paranormal thriller written by Terence Bailey, it’s published by Accent Press. The book focuses on a psychologist based in London and Wales, so these places were the main sources of images used in […]

Hiroshima Mon Amour is Alain Resnais’ 1959 groundbreaking first feature, a springboard for the French New Wave movement and its influence continues to this day. Featuring Emmanuelle Riva and Eiji Okada it’s the story of a brief and passionate affair in post-war Hiroshima. This was a catalogue release […]

I’d worked on Seasons 1 and 2, so it was just a matter of time before Hannibal Season 3 came out of the shadows. I’d been keeping an eye out on the artwork that was being teased when the series was screened and it was a bit […]

Hot on the heels of Season 3 (well, done at the same time actually), came the Season 1-3 boxset. Featuring all the usual suspects, the challenge for Hannibal Season 1-3 boxset was to use some new imagery, or treat something existing in a new way. […]

Creating the artwork for The Happiest Days Of Your Life on Blu-ray and DVD O-rings was a pleasure to work on. Featuring the wonderful actors Alastair Sim, Margaret Rutherford and Joyce Grenfell, it also features artwork by the brilliant Ronald Searle. The artwork is based on a old poster that […]

Lion In Winter is a Vintage Classic from StudioCanal, featuring a very impressive cast of (the Oscar Winning) Katharine Hepburn, Peter O’Toole, Anthony Hopkins and Timothy Dalton. Filmed in 1968 and directed by Anthony Harvey it’s the story of King Henry II’s obsession with finding […]

The wonderful Catch Me Daddy Blu-ray and DVD packaging was an incredible experience to work on. I can’t take any credit for the actual design for this, but my experience in dealing with print, hopefully meant the artwork printed as it intended! With three spot fluorescent Pantones, […]

A title from the archive, Before I Go To Sleep was a pretty straight adaptation from the theatrical artwork and was released way back in 2015 on Blu-ray and DVD with O-ring sleeves. The only issues I remember on this one, was getting the type to work on the […]